Fraud
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Any cunning, deception or artifice, used to circumvent, cheat or deceive another; any act, omission or concealment which involves a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust or confidence justly reposed, and is injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another. Fraud in fact: actual or positive fraud: fraud which consists in, or appears from matter of fact Fraud in Ijiw: fraud, in contemplation of law; fraud implied or inferred by law; fraud made out by construction of law.